Jefferson Co. GA - Stamp Act Protest

Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

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                                                Wednesday Sept. 28 1774
We the Subscribed, inhabitants of the Parish of St. George, in the Province of
Georgia, do hereby publicly declare that we entirely disagree to the paper
containing resolutions which were drawn up in the City of Savannah, by some
persons met there on the 10th of August, 1774; because, although many of us 
gave our votes that Mr. Jones and Mr. Lord should go to the said meeting,
yet it was because we were told that unless we did send some persons there
we would have the Stamp Act put in force. By these and such like arguments, 
we were prevailed upon to do what we did; but as we find we were deceived,
and that the said meetint was intended to draw up a paper that we think
reflects very improperly upon our King and the Parliment, and may be of
bad consequence to this Province, and can serve no good purpose, we
therefore declare that we do not approve of the said paper; and we give
our dissent in this public manner.

                                        (signed) ALEXANDER BERRYHILL
                                                        SAMUEL BERRYHILL
                                                (and 112 other persons)

The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants

This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before
her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her
research online.

David Morgan  dmorgan@efn.org